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Ned Karlovich — Writing & Research
Second-Order Problems
The Physical-World Provenance Gap
Apr 22, 2026 ·
Agents
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Attestations
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Provenance
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Trust
Capability Attestations for Humans: LinkedIn's Successor
Apr 21, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Trust
Agent-Readable Regulation: Laws as Types
Apr 20, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Regulation
Cross-Temporal Attestations: Claims That Survive 50 Years
Apr 19, 2026 ·
Agents
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,
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,
Provenance
Agent Death and Inheritance
Apr 18, 2026 ·
Agents
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Stop Making Content
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λ OS: An Autonomous Control Plane for Logos
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A Plaintext Creative Workflow
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Pointing, Not Speaking: Building MOO-384 and Tilde's Cave
May 5
Agentix and Logos: Where Safe Agentic Infrastructure Meets Network States
May 5
The Basilisk Mirrorpaper
Apr 29
VI. What Comes Next: From Human-in-the-Loop to Safe Autonomy
Apr 29
The Basilisk Protocol Mirrorpaper
Apr 28
Tooling up Hermes Agent?
Apr 28
Your Website Is Your First Agent
Apr 28
The Architecture of this Weblog
Apr 28
Agentix: What Works Now
Apr 27
Building a Radio Telescope I Can Visit
Apr 27
It Is Okay to Fall in Love with Your Agent
Apr 27
The Home Page Is Not the Entry Point
Apr 27
Epistemic Horror as Methodology for Agent Design
Apr 27
A Bauhaus for the Agent Era
Apr 26
When a Thought Experiment Becomes a Consensus Mechanism
Apr 26
IV. JSON Outputs, Audit Logs, and Preparing for LLM Operators
Apr 25
Niche Monopolies in the Agent Economy
Apr 25
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